Job Information
The Walsh Group Construction Project Scheduler in Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Walsh is currently seeking a Construction Project Scheduler for our Heavy Civil Division in Chicago, IL.
Walsh is a rapidly growing, highly diversified construction company, and we constantly seek builders and business people to join our industry-leading team. Walsh employees are "built to succeed" - competitive entrepreneurs with strong character who are energized by working on a team to meet challenges and are willing to take risks after careful planning. There are many compelling reasons why exceptional people should consider a career with our company:
Challenging, complex projects
Creative and innovative problem solving environment
Supportive, communicative managers who reward your success
Opportunities for growth, training, and development
Flexibility to build what you want, where you want
Responsibilities
Develops a baseline schedule while coordinating with project management, superintendents and subcontractors.
Uses established best practices and scheduling software to implement, maintain and analyze the project schedule. Includes coding and loading of resources, loading of costs and loading of general sequencing information
Coordinates all project controls to assess risk in accordance with established best practices and standards. Prepares risk and impact assessments of any changes to the schedule and presents to project team
Analyzes all changes to project schedule and the impact on cost and timeline. Ensures version control
Ensures all project change orders and project delays are documented, analyzed and reviewed. Communicates impact on the project timeline and cost
Leads all project scheduling meetings ensuring appropriate representation of project management. Prepares detailed weekly, monthly, quarterly reports and ensures distribution to appropriate staff
Works with accounting personnel to forecast and manage the project budget and its relationship to the project schedule
Performs claim mitigation, estimating and prepares models of what-if’s and possible contingency plans
Qualifications
Civil Engineering or Construction Management degree preferred
3 - 5 years of project scheduling experience on transportation projects required
Primavera experience required (P6 preferred)
Understand concepts of baseline schedule, progress schedule, recovered schedule, total float, critical path, predecessors, successors, near critical paths, float trending, percent complete, float ownership, and constraints
Claim experience required
Time impact analysis experience required
Ability to make confident, timely, and fact based decisions on a broad range of resources
Candidates must demonstrate multi-tasking experience working in large teams and solving complex problems
Some travel required
The Walsh Group offers competitive wages and benefits, including:
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Generous Vacation Time & Paid US Holidays
Company 401(k) Matching Contributions
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Commuter Benefits Program
Maternity Leave Policy
Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
Term Life and AD&D Insurance
An Equal Opportunity Employer, Disability/Veteran
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Job Locations US-IL-Chicago
Requisition ID 2021-5623
Position Type Experienced - Full-Time
Category Operations
Division Transportation